LAN : Computer Hardware Buyers’ Glossary

LANs (Local Area Networks)
let you link computers together so that you can share files, printers or programs.
Windows-95 comes bundled with simple LAN (Local Area Network)
software. All you need extra are some Ethernet cards and cabling. Businesses use more
complicated and efficient LANs
where some computers on the net are designated as servers. Nobody sits at them. The
servers do work on behalf of the workstation computers. These business
LANs
would typically use Novell Netware software. There are other types of
LAN besides
Ethernet. You may find Arcnet, Lantastic and Token Ring, however Ethernet is by far
the most common.